Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1906

Worcester, a city and one of the capitals of Worcester co., Mass., near the Blackstone River, 44 miles W. by S. of Boston, on the Boston and Albany, the Boston and Maine and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rs. It is the second city in population of the state, of which it occupies approximately the geographical centre, and is distinguished, apart from its industries, for the large number and character of its public edifices and institutions. Among these are the city-hall, court-house, post-office, free public library (with about 150,000 volumes), state armory, Worcester Art Museum, American Antiquarian Society (with a library of 125,000 volumes), the museum of the Worcester Natural Historical Society, Clarke University (founded in 1887), and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (with admirable chemical laboratories). Other institutions of learning are Worcester Academy, College of the Holy Cross (Roman Catholic), the Highland Military Academy, and a state normal school. The city has several attractive parks and squares ( Elm, Lake, Lincoln ), and on the Common is a War Monument. About 1} miles from the city is the large state lunatic asylum. The manufacturing industries of Worcester are represented by wire-works (the largest in the world), great manufactories of looms and of envelopes, foundries and machine-shops, woollen- and cotton- mills, and manufactories of railroad-cars, elevators, emery- wheels, fire-arms, wrenches and tools, organs and pianos, hoots and shoes, corsets, carpets, etc. The city is the birth place of the historian George Bancroft. About 2 miles to the E. is Lake Quinsigamond, a popular resort. Worcester (at first called Quonsigamog or Quinsigamond) was settled in 1673, but soon afterwards abandoned on account of In dian attacks ; permanently settled in 1713 ; and incorporated as a city in 1848. Pop. in 1850, 17,049; in 1860, 24,960; in 1870, 41,105; in 1875, 49,265; in 1880, 58,291 ; in 1885, 68.389 ; in 1890, 84,655 ; in 1900, 118,421.

Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906

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